If you’re not including this in your workout, you’re doing it wrong

Celebrity fitness trainer (and former ballerina) Cindy Jourdain believes nothing is more important than warming up and cooling down right. The productivity of your workout diminishes without giving your body a kick-start, as she told us here.

She draws up the perfect pre- and post-workout routine for us with a little something in-between, if you need it.

Warm up: 30 seconds each

Downward dog/walk the dog (calf stretch)

Upward facing dog

World’s greatest stretch

Hip bridge

Crab reaches

Triangle forward bent

Lateral hip openers

Reverse lunge reaches

Walking hip cradles

Walking quad stretch

Pulse raiser: Tabata20 seconds each split by a 10 second break. Two rounds of each.